The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Person

Richard W. Gates (political consultant)

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • POL-6.6: The September 2018 Manafort superseding information charges that from at least 2006 to 2015 Manafort conspired with Richard Gates, Konstantin Kilimnik and others to act as unregistered agents of Ukraine, including by arranging payment of over $2 million from offshore accounts to two unnamed Washington lobbying firms, which the information does not identify. On 31 March 2017 DOJ's FARA unit told the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs in separate letters that each had an obligation to register for political activities for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 824 14 September 2018. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Special Counsel's Office): Superseding Criminal Information, United States v. Manafort, No. 17-cr-201 (ABJ), Doc. 419